Arts entertainment, and media

Music

Register (music) A register is the "height" or range of a note, set of pitches or pitch classes, melody, part, instrument, or group of instruments. A higher register indicates higher pitch. *Example 1: Violins are in a higher register than cellos. In woodwind ...

, the relative "height" or range of a note, melody, part, instrument, etc. * ''Register'', a 2017 album by Travis Miller *

Registration (organ) Registration is the technique of choosing and combining the stops of a pipe organ in order to produce a particular sound. ''Registration'' can also refer to a particular combination of stops, which may be recalled through combination action. The r ...

, the art of combining the different sounds of a pipe organ to produce the desired sound

Periodicals

Australia

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South Australian Register ''The Register'', originally the ''South Australian Gazette and Colonial Register'', and later ''South Australian Register,'' was South Australia's first newspaper. It was first published in London in June 1836, moved to Adelaide in 1837, and f ...

'', later ''The Register'', originally the ''South Australian Gazette and Colonial Register''

United Kingdom

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Sheffield Register The ''Sheffield Iris'' was an early weekly newspaper published on Tuesdays James Montgomery, John Holland and James Everett, ''Memoirs of the Life and Writings of James Montgomery'' in Sheffield, England. The first newspaper to be published in S ...

'', England * ''

Socialist Register The ''Socialist Register'' is an annual socialist publication. It was founded in 1964 by Ralph Miliband and John Saville. They had criticisms of the ''New Left Review'' (''NLR'') after Perry Anderson became editor of the ''NLR'' in 1962. Miliband a ...

'', an annual British journal * ''

The Register ''The Register'' is a British technology news website co-founded in 1994 by Mike Magee, John Lettice and Ross Alderson. The online newspaper's masthead sublogo is "''Biting the hand that feeds IT''." Their primary focus is information tec ...

'', a technology news website

United States

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Federal Register The ''Federal Register'' (FR or sometimes Fed. Reg.) is the official journal of the federal government of the United States that contains government agency rules, proposed rules, and public notices. It is published every weekday, except on feder ...

'', a public journal of the United States federal government * ''

Napa Valley Register The ''Napa Valley Register'' is a daily newspaper located in Napa, California. The paper began publication on August 10, 1863. By 1864, the newspaper had dropped “Valley” from its name, becoming simply the ''Napa Register'', until returning t ...

'', Napa Valley, California * ''

National Catholic Register The ''National Catholic Register'' is a Catholic newspaper in the United States. It was founded on November 8, 1927, by Matthew J. Smith as the national edition of the '' Denver Catholic Register''. The ''Registers current owner is the Ete ...

'', the oldest national Catholic newspaper in the United States * ''

New Haven Register The ''New Haven Register'' is a daily newspaper published in New Haven, Connecticut. It is owned by Hearst Communications. The Register's main office is located at 100 Gando Drive in New Haven. The ''Register'' was established about 1812 and i ...

'', Connecticut * ''

Orange County Register ''The Orange County Register'' is a paid daily newspaper published in California. The ''Register'', published in Orange County, California, is owned by the private equity firm Alden Global Capital via its Digital Fiest/Media News subsidiaries. ...

'', Santa Ana, California * ''

Social Register The ''Social Register'' is a semi-annual publication in the United States that indexes the members of American high society. First published in the 1880s by newspaper columnist Louis Keller, it was later acquired by Malcolm Forbes. Since 2014, it ...

'', one of a number of directories of prominent American families * ''

The Des Moines Register ''The Des Moines Register'' is the daily morning newspaper of Des Moines, Iowa. History Early period The first newspaper in Des Moines was the ''Iowa Star''. In July 1849, Barlow Granger began the paper in an abandoned log cabin by the junctio ...

'', Iowa * ''

The New England Historical and Genealogical Register The New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS) is the oldest and largest genealogical society in the United States, founded in 1845. NEHGS provides family history services through its staff, original scholarship, website,Register (art) In art and archaeology, in sculpture as well as in painting, a register is a horizontal level in a work that consists of several levels arranged one above the other, especially where the levels are clearly separated by lines. Modern comic books ...

, the separation of multiple pictographic scenes from each other *

Registration acts (comics) Discrimination against superheroes is a common theme and plot element comic books and superhero fiction, usually as a way to explore the issue of superheroes operating in society or as commentary on other social concerns. Often in response to th ...

, fictional legislation that is a focus in Marvel Comics

Documents, records and government

Accession Register In libraries, art galleries, museums and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to, and achieving initial control of, each acquisition. Assignment of accession numbers typically occurs at the point of accessioning or catalog ...

, identifiers assigned to each acquisition in a library or archive * Register, official student records kept by an academic institution's

Registrar A registrar is an official keeper of records made in a register. The term may refer to: Education * Registrar (education), an official in an academic institution who handles student records * Registrar of the University of Oxford, one of the sen ...

Check register In accounting, a check register or checkbook register is a document, usually part of the general ledger, used to record financial transaction A financial transaction is an agreement, or communication, between a buyer and seller to exchange goods, ...

, booklet used to record account transactions *

Civil registration Civil registration is the system by which a government records the vital events (births, marriages, and deaths) of its citizens and residents. The resulting repository or database has different names in different countries and even in differen ...

, government recording of births, marriages, and deaths *

Company register A company register is a register of organizations in the jurisdiction they operate under. A statistical business register has a different purpose than a company register. While a commercial/trade register serves a purpose of protection, accounta ...

, a record of organizations in the jurisdiction they operate under *

Family register Civil registration is the system by which a government records the vital events (Birth certificate, births, Marriage certificate, marriages, and Death certificate, deaths) of its citizens and Residency (domicile), residents. The resulting repos ...

, a registry used to track information of genealogical or legal interest *

Register (General Land Office) A register (formally, "Register of the Land Office") was the top official for a district land office of the United States' General Land Office. Registers were nominated by the president, with approval of the senate. For most of the active period of ...

, head of a district office which sold public lands under the United States' General Land Office system *

Register office (United Kingdom) A register office or The General Register Office, much more commonly but erroneously registry office (except in official use), is a British government office where births, deaths, marriages, civil partnership, stillbirths and adoptions in England, ...

, where births, deaths and marriages are officially recorded *

Registration statement In the United States, a registration statement is a set of documents, including a prospectus, which a company must file with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission before it proceeds with a public offering. See also *Securities Act of 1933 *F ...

, a set of U.S. legal documents *

Resident registration A resident register is a government database which contains information on the current residence of persons. In countries where registration of residence is compulsory, the current place of residence must be reported to the registration office or ...

, government recording of place of residence *

Summit register A summit book or summit register is a record of visitors to the summit of a mountain. It is usually enclosed in a weatherproof, animalproof metal canister. Some books are maintained in an informal manner by an individual or small group, while ot ...

(or ''canister''), record of visitors to a mountain's summit *

Vehicle registration Motor vehicle registration is the registration of a motor vehicle with a government authority, either compulsory or otherwise. The purpose of motor vehicle registration is to establish a link between a vehicle and an owner or user of the vehicle. Th ...

, compulsory registration of a vehicle with a government authority **

Aircraft registration An aircraft registration is a code unique to a single aircraft, required by Chicago Convention, international convention to be marked on the exterior of every civil aircraft. The registration indicates the aircraft's country of registration, and ...

, registration of an aircraft with a government authority **

Vehicle registration plate A vehicle registration plate, also known as a number plate (British English), license plate (American English), or licence plate ( Canadian English), is a metal or plastic plate attached to a motor vehicle or trailer for official identificati ...

, metal or plastic plate attached to registered vehicle **

Watercraft registration Any vehicle used in or on water as well as underwater, including boats, ships, hovercraft and submarines, is a watercraft, also known as a water vessel or waterborne vessel. A watercraft usually has a propulsive capability (whether by sail, oar ...

, registration of a watercraft with a government authority (See § Maritime for examples) *

Voter registration In electoral systems, voter registration (or enrollment) is the requirement that a person otherwise eligible to vote must register (or enroll) on an electoral roll, which is usually a prerequisite for being entitled or permitted to vote. The ru ...

, entry onto an electoral roll

Linguistics

Register (sociolinguistics) In sociolinguistics, a register is a variety of language used for a particular purpose or in a particular communicative situation. For example, when speaking officially or in a public setting, an English speaker may be more likely to follow pres ...

, a form of a language used for a particular purpose or in a particular social setting *

Register (phonology) In phonology, a register, or pitch register, is a prosodic feature of syllables in certain languages in which tone, vowel phonation, glottalization or similar features depend upon one another. It occurs in Burmese, Vietnamese, Wu Chinese and ...

, a sound system that combines tone with phonation *

Vocal register A vocal register is a range of tones in the human voice produced by a particular vibratory pattern of the vocal folds. These registers include modal voice (or normal voice), vocal fry, falsetto, and the whistle register. Registers originate in la ...

, the range of tones in the human voice

Maritime

Ship registration Ship registration is the process by which a ship is documented and given the nationality of the country to which the ship has been documented. The nationality allows a ship to travel internationally as it is proof of ownership of the vessel. Inter ...

, the process by which a ship is documented *

, compulsory registration of a watercraft with a government authority

Registry organizations

Indian Register of Shipping Indian Register of Shipping (IRClass) is an internationally recognised, independent ship classification society, founded in India in 1975. It is a public limited company incorporated under Section 25 of the Indian Companies Act 1956 (Section 8 o ...

, an independent ship classification society, founded in India in 1975 *

International Register of Shipping The International Register of Shipping or IS was established in 1993, and is an independent classification society which provides classification, certification, verification and advisory services. The International Register of Shipping also offers ...

, an independent classification society *

Korean Register of Shipping The Korean Register (KR) is a not-for-profit classification society founded in South Korea offering verification and certification services for ships and marine structures in terms of design, construction and maintenance. Founded in 1960, the soc ...

, a not-for-profit classification society founded in South Korea *

Lloyd's Register Lloyd's Register Group Limited (LR) is a technical and professional services organisation and a maritime classification society, wholly owned by the Lloyd’s Register Foundation, a UK charity dedicated to research and education in science and ...

, a global engineering, technical and business services organisation and a maritime classification society *

Norwegian International Ship Register Norwegian International Ship Register or NIS is a separate Norwegian ship register for Norwegian vessels aimed at competing with flags of convenience registers such as Panama and Liberia. Originally proposed by Erling Dekke Næss in 1984, it was est ...

, a Norwegian ship register for Norwegian vessels *

Norwegian Ship Register The Norwegian Ship Register ( no, Norsk Ordinært Skipsregister, NOR) is a domestic ship register for Norway. It is managed by the Norwegian Maritime Authority and is physically located in Bergen. The registry has about 12,000 ships, which include b ...

, a domestic ship register for Norway *

Polish Register of Shipping Polish Register of Shipping, (in Polish: ''Polski Rejestr Statków S.A.''), also known as PRS, is an independent classification society established in 1936. It is a not-for-profit company working on the marine market, developing technical rules and ...

, an independent classification society established in 1936 *

Russian Maritime Register of Shipping The Russian Maritime Register of Shipping (RS) maintains a ship register of the Russian Federation, based in Saint Petersburg, and is a marine classification society. Its activities aim to enhance safety of navigation, safety of life at sea, se ...

, an international classification society established in 1913

Other maritime uses

* USS ''Register'', several United States Navy ships * ''

Naval Vessel Register The ''Naval Vessel Register'' (NVR) is the official inventory of ships and service craft in custody of or titled by the United States Navy. It contains information on ships and service craft that make up the official inventory of the Navy from t ...

'', the official inventory of ships and service craft in custody of or titled by the United States Navy

Technology

Computing and telecommunications

Register (C programming language) In the C programming language, register is a reserved word (or keyword), type modifier, storage class, and hint. The register keyword was deprecated in C++, until it became reserved and unused in C++17. It ''suggests'' that the compiler stores a d ...

, a reserved word (keyword) and type modifier * Register (codebook), a codebook, a finite list of defined terms, used i.e. as a primary key in databases *

Hardware register In digital electronics, especially computing, hardware registers are circuits typically composed of flip flops, often with many characteristics similar to memory, such as: * The ability to read or write multiple bits at a time, and * Using an a ...

, a placeholder for information about some hardware condition **

Status register A status register, flag register, or condition code register (CCR) is a collection of status Flag (computing), flag bits for a Central processing unit, processor. Examples of such registers include FLAGS register (computing), FLAGS register in the ...

, a collection of flag bits for a computer processor *

Processor register A processor register is a quickly accessible location available to a computer's processor. Registers usually consist of a small amount of fast storage, although some registers have specific hardware functions, and may be read-only or write-only. ...

, a component inside a central processing unit for storing information **

Quantum register In quantum computing, a quantum register is a system comprising multiple qubits. It is the quantum analogue of the classical processor register. Quantum computers perform calculations by manipulating qubits within a quantum register. Definition ...

, the quantum mechanical analogue of a classical processor register *

Register signaling In telecommunications, register signaling provides addressing information, such as the calling and/or called telephone number. R2 register signaling is an example. This is contrasted with line signaling Line signaling is a class of telecomm ...

, in telecommunications *

Register.com Register.com is a domain name registrar. History The company was founded in 1994 as Forman Interactive Corp by brothers Peter and Richard Forman and their brother-in-law, Dan B. Levine as a provider of website creation software. In 1999, the com ...

, a domain registrar

Other technologies

* Camera register or flange focal distance, distance from the mounting flange to the film plane of an interchangeable lens camera *

Cash register A cash register, sometimes called a till or automated money handling system, is a mechanical or electronic device for registering and calculating transactions at a point of sale. It is usually attached to a drawer for storing cash and other v ...

, a device for recording cash transactions and storing cash *

Image registration Image registration is the process of transforming different sets of data into one coordinate system. Data may be multiple photographs, data from different sensors, times, depths, or viewpoints. It is used in computer vision, medical imaging, milit ...

, process of transforming different sets of data into one coordinate system *

Printing registration In color printing, print registration is the layering of printed patterns to form a multicolor pattern. Registration error is the "position misalignment in the overlapped patterns." Machine components such as the print cylinder, doctor blade ass ...

, in color printing, the correlating of colors in a single image * User registration, the process of becoming a

registered user A registered user is a user of a website, program, or other systems who has previously ''registered.'' Registered users normally provide some sort of credentials (such as a username or e-mail address, and a password) to the system in order to ...

Other uses

Register (surname) Register is a surname. It may refer to: *Cheri Register, American author and teacher * George Scott Register (1901–1972), American lawyer *John Register (1936–1996), American painter *Matthew Register, Canadian ice hockey player * Paul J. Regis ...

, a list of people with the surname *

Register, Georgia Register is a town in Bulloch County, Georgia, United States. The population was 175 at the 2010 census. The community was named after Frank Register, a pioneer citizen. Geography Register is located at (32.366495, -81.883543). According to th ...

, a town in The United States *

Register (air and heating) A register is a grille with moving parts, capable of being opened and closed and the air flow directed, which is part of a building's heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system. The placement and size of registers is critical to HVAC ...

, synonym of "grille", "return" in HVAC system